Word: dark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Admittedly, it is exciting to help pick the new design. But as I evaluated the choices last weekend, I felt the hypocrisy eating at me. Which image of Sacajawea did I prefer? No. 14, where she looks dark and almost manly, with a large nose and braided hair? Or No. 98, where her features are duller and softer, with her baby on her back? And what about No. 100, where we see her whole, thin figure, one arm pointing to the west, mountains in the background...
...teacher. And his friendship with Blume turns into a nasty, near murderous rivalry. Suddenly Max is no longer quite as adorable as we thought he was. And an often deft, frequently droll little movie turns into an increasingly desperate juggling act, first trying to keep too many dark and weighty emotional objects aloft, then trying to bring them back to hand in a graceful and satisfying way. The goodwill Rushmore has accumulated in its early passages is not entirely dissipated by this frenzy, but its concluding klutziness does rather spoil...
...with a Four-Star Chef (Broadway; 224 pages; $35)--a recipe that involves cutting 15 peeled Granny Smith apples into 1/8-in. slices, layering them with orange zest and sugar and baking the whole lot for six hours, only to find...fruit stacked in sugar water instead of the promised "dark, rich mille-feuille of caramelized apples...
...Seti, the Pharaoh. At first Moses seems only incidentally vexed that his fellow Hebrews have been enslaved to help build the pyramids. But he gradually achieves an ethnic identity and flexes some vengeful muscle, thanks to a divine ally--a force as implacable as Clint Eastwood in a really dark mood--who, when bid, will kill each Egyptian firstborn male...
...less comforting (read Republican) vision, Clinton can examine the "Decalogue", Krzysztof Kieslowski's ten-hour, brilliantly dark retelling of each of the commandments. Poland never looked more beautiful, even if watching all ten earnest hours seems more than a little dutiful. But -- careful, Bill -- don't look to close, not at a series that has segments with titles like "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery...